It's not because he is a Malaysians that he bombed your hotels. It's not because they're Indonesians that they did crime in my country.

It's who they are. Existentialism.

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A bridge to Sumatra Mr. Ali Rustam?

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If stating and spreading the truth is character assassination, we should just close down all the courts in the land.

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Last week many Indonesians Twitters are baying for Malaysian blood over another cultural theft of their culture by Malaysia in one of its Visit Malaysia adverts.

I haven't seen the ad so I wouldn't want to comment on that. But the thing is, since both countries are so closely related historically and hence, culturally, why can't we just do a co-promotion of our region, the Malay Archipelago, or the Nusantara or East Indies whatever.

Borders are imaginary lines. Stealing is a shameful thing, of course. Being ignorant to other people's culture is stupid and being pompous about your culture is rather silly too especially when that particular cultural piece is also available elsewhere.

Say thanks to your forefathers and his boat. Transmigration.

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I can't think of any Southeast Asian country where satay is not on the menu. Some help please?

Yeah, most of them do argue childishly. Their envy towards Malaysia is way more than our envy towards Singapore. Almost everything with the way we live is wrong in their eyes, from the way we got our Merdeka down to who invented rendang (of course, they claimed that it is theirs).

Perhaps it is their ardent nationalism, from the days of Sukarno and up till now where there is a strong sense of militarism in their country. Maybe their nationalist pride transcend that of cultural heritage and oneness while to us it is the other way around.

I feel that both countries rely on each other to survive in this region and be more pronounced in the global stage. If people from both countries can set aside these small differences and accept that we are same but not similar, we can do all sort of things.